Calling on Powerful Part-Time and Flexible workers - Women's Agenda

Calling on Powerful Part-Time and Flexible workers

Do you work part-time or flexibly? Do you work hours that some might consider a little ‘outside of the norm’?

Well here’s a big THANK YOU to you.

We only wish you’d speak up a little more about how you’re working, and why you work the way you do.

You see flexible work still has some negative connotations. It’s seen as something merely available for ‘working mothers’, a place you go to ‘park your career’ while you manage little people for a period.

It’s rarely associated with leadership and productivity. Quite the opposite. To hear a CEO or senior executive discuss how they’re genuinely working flexibly is still an anomaly, despite many major organisations promoting their flexible work options.

Last year, we partnered with ProfessionalMums.net to publish a list of 31 of the most powerful part-timers in Australia. It included job sharers, some working nine-day fortnights, and others working school hours. It showcased a broad spectrum of work possibilities, careers and industries. 

This year, we’re producing a new Part-Time Power List, in partnership with ProfessionalMums.net once again, and we’re looking for a new group of individuals — male and female – to highlight as pursuing truly flexible, powerful leadership careers. 

By ‘part-time’ we’re pretty flexible, just like we believe all employers should be. We’re looking for those who work outside of the Monday to Friday, morning to afternoon working structure we’ve come to know. People who’ve got creative solutions for managing work with whatever they’ve got going on outside of the office. People who are truly demonstrating that ‘part-time work’ can be just as powerful and meaningful as full-time work.

This list is designed to showcase the many, many different ways of working that are available, and those who’re proudly demonstrating how they’re making it work.

We need your help in sourcing this powerful list. You can dominate yourself, or another powerful part-timer you know, by filling in this survey.

We’ll also be following up with Australia’s largest organisations to find out about the most senior individuals within their workforces who’re genuinely working flexibly.

We’re breaking down the stereotype that leadership success comes from full-time office commitments.

We’re breaking down the stereotype that office face time is an indicator of productivity and seniority

And we’re breaking down the steretype that part-time and flexible work is the domain of working mothers alone, rather than something both genders and anyone — kids or no kids — can successfully pursue

Check out the 2014 Part-Time Power List here.

Nominate your favourite part-timer here, and let us know your ideas for making flexible careers a reality for more Australians by getting in contact

 

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